global tension Quotes

If there's Cold War, no 'Star Wars' in China.

Our Cuba policy was a major obstacle to getting things done in the hemisphere and a source of tension around the world.

The immediate cause of World War III is the military preparation of it.

So, rather than trying to humbly mix with the rest of the world, we are forcing ourselves upon it. We seem to create conflicts with everyone.

There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.

The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that.

Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.

The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The nations backed their machines over the precipice not one of them wanted war, certainly not on this scale

As capitalists are in one another’s hair at home, they are at one another’s throats internationally.

Strifes will arise through the period. Watch for them near the Davis Strait in the attempts there for the keeping of the life line to land open. Watch for them in Libya and in Egypt, in Ankara and in Syria, through the straits about those areas above Australia, in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf.

I remain hopeful that science, innovation and kindness will come to the fore as things become more and more tense in parts of the world. I think what you are seeing in the world right now is kind of a leveling or an attempt to level the playing field.

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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

The entire United States is within range of our nuclear weapons, and a nuclear button is always on my desk. This is reality, not a threat.

Today events move so rapidly that it is exceedingly difficult to state with technical accuracy the actual state of affairs, but it is clear that the peace of Europe cannot be preserved. Russia and Germany, at any rate, have declared war upon each other.

Unfortunately, violent events and hate-filled rhetoric around the world provide ample opportunity for promoting religious hostility.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

Your daddy may go down in history as having started World War III.

Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?

there’s too much tension in the world… what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can’t make peace.

I'm not an expert on the arms race.

[The US is] naked, absolutely nude, to attack [by the Soviets].

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.

That is potentially putting us all in the target hairs now is the reactivation of a new nuclear arms race. This arms race and this cold war is potentially hotter than it's been at any time in my lifetime.